Name: Complete Poems
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Author: Hemingway, Ernest ; Gerogiannis, Nicholas
ISBN: 9780803272590

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Illustrated by

Nicholas Gerogiannis

Publisher

Bison Books

Year

1983

Language

English

Pages

171

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.4 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN

0803272596

ISBN13

9780803272590

Synopsis "Complete Poems "

Ernest Hemingway never wished to be widely known as a poet. He concentrated on writing short stories and novels, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1956. But his poetry deserves close attention, if only because it is so revealing. Through verse he expressed anger and disgust--at Dorothy Parker and Edmund Wilson, among others. He parodied the poems and sensibilities of Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Kilmer, Robert Graves, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Gertrude Stein. He recast parts of poems by the likes of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, giving them his own twist. And he invested these poems with the preoccupations of his novels: sex and desire, battle and aftermath, cats, gin, and bullfights. Nowhere is his delight in drubbing snobs and overrefined writers more apparent. In this revised edition of the Complete Poems, the editor, Nicholas Gerogiannis, offers here an afterword assessing the influence of the collection, first published in 1979, and an updated bibliography. Readers will be particularly interested in the addition of Critical Intelligence, a poem written soon after Hemingway's divorce from his first wife in 1927. Also available as a Bison Book: Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny by Mark Spilka.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway (Oak Park, Illinois, July 21, 1899 – Ketchum, Idaho, July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He fought in World War I and was a correspondent in several conflicts. His most famous works include The Old Man and the Sea (Pulitzer Prize), A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, recognized for their direct style and influence on universal literature.

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